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Forgetting and Remembering: Kenneth Cumberland and Soil Erosion in New Zealand, 1940s to 2020s
Kōtuitui: New Zealand Journal of Social Sciences Online, Volume 21, Issue 1, March 2026.The speed and scale of landscape transformation in New Zealand was almost immediately apparent to British geographer Kenneth Cumberland on his appointment to Canterbury University College in 1938. His efforts culminated in the nationally and internationally well‐regarded book ‘Soil Erosion in New Zealand: A Geographical Reconnaissance (1944a)’, which ...
Michael Roche
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Poetry, citizenship and diplomacy: The case of Western Sahara
The Geographical Journal, Volume 192, Issue 1, March 2026.Short Abstract This article argues for greater consideration of the role of poetry and poets in diplomacy and as a medium for the recognition of contested citizenships. We take Western Sahara, the site of an ongoing anti‐colonial war, as our case study and explore how Saharawi poets engage foreign publics in their national struggle to become citizens ...
Joanna Allan, Moiti Mohamed Azrouk
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Beyond Deaths and Dollars: Modeling Requirements to Support Equity‐Focused Disaster Risk Management
Earthquake Spectra, Volume 42, Issue 1, February 2026.The disaster risk modeling framework has long focused on quantifiable impact metrics to assess a hazard's potential direct effects, such as fatalities (deaths) and economic losses (dollars). Over time, as the framework has expanded to inform both public and private applications, additional impact metrics that more directly consider the societal roots ...
Sabine Loos +3 more
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Two Regimes of Waste and Value: ‘Post‐Disaster’ Landscapes in a New India
Development and Change, Volume 57, Issue 1, Page 27-49, January 2026.ABSTRACT In this age of ‘disaster capitalism’, catastrophes are neither ‘natural’ nor ‘external’. They are political events mediating and vitally shaping the unequal and exploitative use of environmental resources. India's ‘post‐disaster’ landscapes at the turn of the new millennium powerfully demonstrate how visions of the new‐normal can be imposed in
Vasudha Chhotray, David Singh
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International Journal for Simulation and Multidisciplinary Design OptimizationAiming at the problems of low user participation caused by one-way communication in the human-computer interactive interface, insufficient emotional authenticity of digital human interaction, and bottleneck of real-time processing of multimodal data ...
Zhao Boyu, Yue Xiuxia, Yao Xinqiang
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Vulnerable knowledge: responding to the uncertainties of climate change‐related disaster
Disasters, Volume 50, Issue 1, January 2026.Abstract This paper uses uncertainty generated by environmental change and climate crisis as a prompt to rethink the concept of vulnerability within disaster studies. Where some have sought to recover a latent political potential in vulnerability, a togetherness founded in the disclosure of insecurities to others, we argue that there is value in ...
James M. White +2 more
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Eastern Han: A great invention of Zhang Heng’s seismoscope
地震科学进展The Eastern Han Dynasty was a period of rapid development in science, technology and culture. The invention of Zhang Heng’s seismoscope is the most outstanding.
Rui Feng
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The history of anatomical engagement
Anatomical Sciences Education, Volume 18, Issue 12, Page 1337-1348, December 2025.Abstract The public's fascination with anatomy has evolved over time and progressed from avoidance of the tainted yet saintly corpse, to their fascination with cabinets of curiosities. The current narrative review explores public engagement (PE), from its potential origins as cave paintings, to the rise of the disciplinarity of anatomy.
Quenton Wessels, Adam M. Taylor
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Anxious Projections: Mass Hysteria and the Problem of Interpretation
Medical Anthropology Quarterly, Volume 39, Issue 4, December 2025.Abstract Stories of “mass hysteria” among teenage girls have often graced the headlines of Nepal's local and national newspapers, creating a public spectacle of a strange and mysterious form of affliction. Treatments include both shamanic rituals and psychosocial interventions, a new therapeutic modality that has gained prominence over the past two ...
Aidan Seale‐Feldman
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工程科学与技术, 2020 Territory of Three-parallel-rivers composing by Nu River, Lantsang River and Jinsha River in Tibet Plateau is a key zone for the study of the geological environment and nature resource development of Tibet Plateau.
Xin YAO +7 more
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